Celebrating Mother's In Fair Trade - Shanthi from Prowess, India
Mother's day is a special day to celebrate Mothers around the world. Today Uplift Fair Trade celebrates Shanthi. A Mother, a leader and a womenpreneur who has fought odds in her society/community to empower women.
Benefits of Fair Trade - Giving Hope for the Future
Through all the hardships Sarita has gone through as part of a community and the global hardship we are all currently facing through coronavirus, Sarita keeps on smiling as the benefits of Fair Trade shine light for her future.
Fair Trade Mother's Day Gift Ideas - Uplift Fair Trade
Fair Trade Ethical Mother's Day gifts that Mum will love that support Mothers in India and Nepal working to create sustainable livelihoods to empower those who may be affected by a disability and their families.
How Fair Trade Organisations & Leaders Empower People - Fair Trade Stories
This is an amazing story focused on Fair Trade Organisation MESH and how this group supports artisans in India to continue working and creating sustainable livelihoods. This article is based on Fair Trade advocate Jacky Bonney, her role in MESH and how MESH aims to support their projects/groups during the Coronavirus.
A Fair Trade Story During the Coronavirus - Artisan Stories
A moving story/case study that informs us how our Artisans from India have been affected by the Coronavirus (Covid-19). This article reveals the benefits of Fair Trade and the importance of supporting artisans in disadvantaged countries. In this story, you'll learn more about Sjad Ali from Care Kashmir in India.
Uplift Fair Trade response to the Coronavirus March 2020
Firstly - we want to acknowledge this is a global pandemic and while we as a business will suffer, we are very aware of how this will affect everyone. This Includes our wonderful partners and Artisans. In times like these, we recognise that it is the most vulnerable people in society that face the greatest impact.
Our support to Fair Trade Women's Run Business in India
Blue Mango is a self-sufficient business, making beautiful products that range from Kaftan tops and dresses to the cutest kids toys. The producer group follows the ten Fair Trade Principles to ensure each employee is treated right. Blue Mango is an empowering environment for the women who work there. Run by women for women, Blue Mango priorities employing women that are widowed, living with AIDs/HIV, have been or are experiencing domestic abuse or have been outcast or deserted for other reasons such as disability.
We Need Your Help
We are a family-run Fair Trade business based in the Blue Mountains Australia, and we are struggling more than ever. Our passion is to ethically trade, to give artisans living with a disability an opportunity for a sustainable livelihood. Our hearts are breaking for our country and all that we, as a community, have lost as a result of the unprecedented bushfires and drought. Many people have sadly lost their homes, livelihoods and loved ones. Our environment has suffered a catastrophic loss of vegetation, trees, wildlife, insects, and bugs. Our local region; the Blue Mountains have witnessed and been involved in the disastrous fires surrounding and engulfing properties and communities.
A Visit to Prowess
Prowess exists to help exploited women to find empowerment through their sewing skills, enabling their children to attend school and even university. Some of these women come from homes too poor to have a dowry provided for them so are in danger of being married off to older, abusive men who have no respect for them.
India Trip 2015 - Visiting the Mirtariqahmad Brothers
At the gate of the Mirtariqahmad house, we are met by the Father and the youngest brother, who walks with the aid of a walking stick. They take us into a room where the two older brothers are seated and stitching. While the effects of muscular dystrophy can be seen, it’s the warmth of their smiles that is striking and the speed of their hands as the stitch. We discover later - mobility is extremely difficult. The two older brothers basically do not leave the room and the younger brother does so rarely, and only accompanied.
India Trip 2015 - Society for Child Development Visit
Madhumita Puri and the many others at SOCD have created an atmosphere of true empowerment, where providing an opportunity to work is opening up so much more.
India 2015 - Annand Crafts Artisans pop into MESH
The thing that is striking about visiting groups like this is the community and friendship Handicrafts give. What is also so exciting on seeing the ladies talking about their children. The fact that they have been able to get their children through school and university is a massive achievement, ending the cycle of poverty.